Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-21

The location of a Congregational col
lege at Fargo is assured. y $4,000
building will be erected.
The treasurer's semi-annual state
ment shows that Hutchinson county
has $13,2lO.0o to her credit.
The commissioner of immigration
will soon publish a book giving valua-
BILE information about the territory.
Reports come from Columbia that the
court house there is guarded by armed
men to prevent the removal Of the
records.
At the Beadle county local option
convention it was decided to raise $500
for the campaign, 500 of Which was
raised on the spot.
The trustees of the Yankton asylum
refuse to resign, since they claim the
recent Investigations neither exonera-
ted nor convicted them.
Dillon & Preston. of Mitchell. asked
$500 of Jerauld county for their SER
| vices in the Solomon murder trial. The
county allowed them $1,000.
The Episcopal society Of Rapid City
is moving Cor the erection of Il church.
The Scandinavian Evangelical Luth-
eran is building, 2sx4O, frame.
From statiftics in the hands of the
commissioner of immigration, he re-
ports the estimated population OF Da-
kota, 100000, not an exaggeration.
There were five in Aberdeen who
voted to continue Columbia as the seat
of government for Brown county, and
three in Columbia who voted to change
to Aberdeen.
The full vote of Brown county on
the county seat question shows the fol-
lowing figures: Total vote, 4,414.
Aberdeen, 2,749; Columbia, 1,6G5-Ab-
erdcen's majority. 1904.
Annie Broo, a servant girl 10 years
of age, who has been in this country
about year, gave birth to "a bouncing
girl in Sioux Falls on the 18th. The
opportunities in this land of the free
are great.
i Dakota among the states and terrific.
ries stands sixth in the number of bush.
els of wheat produced. Only eleven
states raise more oats, sixteen have
more shcools, fourteen more newspa
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railroad.
The Dakota w. c. Z. U, will hold its
annual meeting at Huron the first week
of September. Preparations are being
made to entertain over 200 delegates
Among the speakers will be Mrs. Mar.
a. Woodbridge, national secretary, ant
Miss Balch, of Indiana.
The board of county commissioner
increased the assessed valuation o
Aberdeen's city property $50 per cent
or from $677,22O to $1,6S6,4oO. al
other portions of Brown county wer
increased from 30 to 100 per cent. Th
5 total equalized valuation of the count
is 81 ,162, ,764.
} Mary Parent, of Bowdle, who recent
ly had her father Jailed on charge 0
: of incest with her, now causes the al
rest of one of the Smith family fo
rape. Smith admitted in court that h
took walk with her. but stoutly dt
i, MED that any misunderstanding or III
:, pleasantness occurred.
Another self-binder accident hal
p pened near Freeman, Saturday. a
r Wilhelm Senner, a Russian farmer, wa
running his machine, he in some MAJ
o ner pitched forward and fell on til
!. Platform Of the binder with one leg
front of the sickle. His hip was gashe
i some and the leg was severed above I'll
J. ankle.
It Yankton Press and Dakotaian,
d The Missouri river is cutting into ii
Dakota bank at a point about mi
t, east Of this city ut an alarming rat
le Last night at sundown the bank W;
IS nearly seventy feet south of the Nj
is wauliee track at one point, but tn
re morning the water was within six fe
" of the track.
A dividend of 10 cents a share h
f. been declared on Deadwood Terra,
ty $4,000 in all. This is the first dividcl
III that has been declared on Deadwo
Terra since January, 1883, though t
company has continued milling uni
IN terrupteGly, and during the past t,
ce years very large surplus has heen ;
co cumulated. On the strength of tt
,c- dividend stock advanced from 81 90
$2.S5.
A shocking and fatal occident (
CURED between Freeman and Mari
as junction last Thursday afternoon,
IN which Henry Unruh, a weil-to-do RI
It's sian farmer about 62 years of age III
RS his death. They had Just set up Il
Nj Nj were starting his self-binder (his S
ee was driving). when the team ran aw
nd and ran into the old man and litera
cut him to pieces. His right hip "
o od cut nearly off and broken, one side
M his head or scalp cut off, so Il portion
en- the brain as large as Il silver dollar v
rs. exposed. A guard also run into
y. head and pushed out one of his ey
no He died about seven o'clock the II,
morning.